I am struggling to get my wireless lan up and running using Actiontec
USB transmitters. To this end I changed all my sources from stable to
testing and ran apt-get -f install linux-wlan-ng. Now I am awash with
instructions for setting up modules, for installing pcmcia-cs and
rebuilding my kernel with conflicting alternate methods.
I was always perfectly happy creating a custom kernel with
make menuconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
and then copying the new bzImage to /boot, running lilo and rebooting.
One set of instructions seems to indicate I can still use this approach
using apt-src after I have downloaded pcmcia-cs.tar.gz to /usr/src and
unpacked it. However, apt-src is unknown on my system and apt-cache
search apt-src can't find it. The other approach uses make-kpkg to make
a .deb package of my kernel which dpkg will install. I can see this
would be neat if I wanted to package my kernel to give to someone else
but what advantage does it offer me?
At present I keep three kernel images - a good working version of
2.4.18, a test version and 2.2.19-compact which works with an early
version of mondo (the stable version of mondo and mindi does not create
a bootable cd on my system. mondo-archive --isodir /bkups/iso_dir does
when the system has been booted with 2.2.19-compact.) Detailed notes in
bootmess.txt tell my grandchildren how to boot the system.
Bottom Line: I like my approach but will switch if make-kpkg offers
clear advantages. If apt-src is available and works with my approach
this would be OK.
The cross-references - Debian PCMCIA Card Services README file, the
linux-wlan-ng READMe, the linux-wlan-ng README.Debian file, the README
file for dynamically loadable modules, and the make-kpkg README file
left me confused. Indeed, I am not sure why I need pcmcia-cs at all
when all I have is a usb transmitter/receiver. Yet one of the
instructions insists this is needed even it you have built a kernel with
pcmcia support.
I would welcome any comments which straighten out my muddled thinking on
these points or even a blunt forget it, do this and your wireless lan
will work.
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